Wealthy Quotes - Page 29

• God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Happiness, Gratitude, Thank God

  "Reverence for Life".

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• I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Running, Odds, Voice

  "The Good Fight". Book by Shirley Chisholm, 1973.

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• Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Spring, Poverty, Wealth

  Peter Kropotkin (2016). “The Conquest of Bread”, p.84, Peter Kropotkin

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• I truly believe anyone can be wealthy.

  Dan Thompson

  Believe

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• On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

  Martin Sheen

  Vegetables, People, Trying

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.

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• Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Rights, Wealth

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• Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.

  Angela Davis

  Racism, Black, Firsts

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• I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.

  Alice Walker

  Country, Ghetto, Thinking

  "A long walk to freedom" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2001.

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• I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Class, Mind, Gold

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.20, Graphic Arts Books

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• Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity.

  St. Jerome

  Wealth, Poor, Plague

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• Among the wealthy, compassionate men claim the richest wealth, For material wealth is possessed by even contemptible men. Find and follow the good path and be ruled by compassion. For if the various ways are examined, compassion will prove the means to liberation.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mean

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• The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Courage, Lying

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• All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, America, Privilege

  Theodore Roosevelt, Eugene Thwing (1919). “Newer Roosevelt messages: speeches, letters and magazine articles dealing with the war, before and after, and other vital topics”

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• What motivates someone who's become wealthy to go out and work in the ghetto with those who are poor? What motivates one who has perfect health to go and work with the sick? If you understand - then you understand the root and cause of all existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Ghetto

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• You don't have to be the smartest person to become successful and wealthy. Many of the most successful and wealthy people in society are not the most educated people.

  Jon Jones

  Motivational, Successful, People

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• Who is all-powerful in the world? Who is most dreadful in the world? The machine. Who is most fair, most wealthy, and all-wise? The machine. What is the earth? A machine. What is the sky? A machine. What is man? A machine. A machine.

  Leonid Andreyev

  Wise, Powerful, Men

  Leonid Andreyev (1911). “King-Hunger: Translated from the Russian by Eugene M. Kayden”

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• A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Doctors, Humanity

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Alexander Chalmers (1822). “The Tatler”, p.40

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• Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned.

  Conrad Black

  Biblical, Envied, Has Beens

  "'At Some Level, He's Still Asking the Same Question as He Was When He Was Seven or Eight - Who Am I?'". www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2007.

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• If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.

  Robert E. Howard

  Snakes, Cities, World

  Letter to H. P. Lovecraft, 1931.

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• For decades the G.O.P. has won elections by appealing to social and racial divisions, only to turn after each victory to deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy — a process that reached its epitome when George W. Bush won re-election by posing as America's defender against gay married terrorists, then announced that he had a mandate to privatize Social Security.

  Paul Krugman

  Cutting, Gay, America

  "Severe Conservative Syndrome". www.nytimes.com. February 12, 2012.

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• A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans.

  Michael Lewis

  People, Giving, Mind

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What rights have women? ... [they are] punished for breaking laws which they have no voice in making. All avenues to enterprise and honors are closed against them. If poor, they must drudge for a mere pittance if of the wealthy classes, they must be dressed dolls of fashion parlor puppets.

  Ernestine Rose

  Fashion, Rights, Law

  "The American Life of Ernestine L. Rose, Syracuse". Book by Carol A. Kolmerten (p.49), 1999.

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• Africa is wealthy in natural resources; the problem is they are not optimally utilized.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Problem, Natural, Resources

  "President Museveni Highlights Ugandan Achievements for Americans" by Jim Fisher-Thompson, news.findlaw.com. September 23, 2005.

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• The wealthy are generally impressed with an idea, that they shall never stand in need of public charitable relief; but a little less confidence would become them better.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Ideas, Relief, Needs

  Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Robert Prinsep (1857). “A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.439

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• I don't approve of what Wall Street and the wealthy have done to this country, but they are the very ones buying my paintings.

  Scott Kahn

  Country, Wall, Done

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